 ... transmitted, and in every generation receive a different form. They are made to bear the stamp of the times through which they have passed in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which their pretended descriptions relate.  An Essay on the History of Civil Society - Page 116de Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 424 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1767 - 608 pages
...receive a different form. They are made to bear the damp of the times through which they have pafled in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which...they bring, is not like the light reflected from a mirrour, which delineates the objeft from which it originally came ; but. like rays that come broken... | |
 | George Grote - 1899 - 532 pages
...receive a different form. They are made to bear the stamp of the time* Hirough which they have passed in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which their pretended descriptions relate When traditionary fables are rehearsed by the vulgar, they bear the marks of a... | |
 | Colin Kidd - 2003 - 342 pages
...receive a different form. They are made to bear the stamp of the times through which they have passed in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which their pretended descriptions relate.' 36 Sociological whigs argued that because the savage mind was incapable of political... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 448 pages
...receive a different form. They are made to bear the ftamp of the times through which they have patted in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which...they bring, is not like the light reflected from a mirrour, which delineates the object from which it originally came ; but, like rays that come broken... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...which they have passed in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which their pretended descriptions relate. The information they bring, is not like the...originally came; but, like rays that come broken and dispersed from an opaque or unpolished surface, only give the colours and features of the body from... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 pages
...receive a different form. They are made to bear the stamp o1 the times through which thev have passed in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which their pretended descriptions relate. The information they bring, is not like the light reflected from a mirror, which... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 956 pages
...Ferguson, all historical accounts are made to bear the stamp of the times through which they have passed in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which their pretended descriptions relate. The information they bring is not like the light reflected from a mirror, which... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips, Mark Phillips, Gordon J. Schochet - 2004 - 348 pages
...receive a different form. They are made to bear the stamp of the times through which they have passed in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which their pretended descriptions relate.'35 Ferguson's primary emphasis is clearly on the unreliability of transmission,... | |
 | Andrew P. Lyons, Harriet Lyons - 2004 - 437 pages
...receive a different form. They are made to bear the stamp of the times through which they have passed in the form of tradition, not of the ages to which their pretended descriptions relate. The information they bring, is not like the light reflected from a mirror, which... | |
 | Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin, S. Charusheela - 2004 - 308 pages
...are made to bear the stamp of the times through which they have passed in the form of tradition.... The information they bring, is not like the light reflected from a mirrour, which delineates the object from which it originally came, but like rays that come broken... | |
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